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Spread too thinly. Toronto. Originally from UK. Cancer biology researcher at Sinai Health. Also Prez of the Terry Fox Research Institute.

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10.03.2026 12:17 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Because it also shows “likely fraud” when they, the telephone companies, call you. Madness.

09.03.2026 23:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Who is going to want to review under these conditions?

08.03.2026 23:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The policy changes. The reductions are real despite all of the gas-lighting. Many scientists think it will be transient or not affect them or that others will care. But there are systematic reductions across the board and it won’t get the attention needed until too late.

08.03.2026 22:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

OTOH, this will likely be more effective in “voluntary” deportations that ICE could dream about in a decade.

08.03.2026 21:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It does align with the sex difference in income for the same job though.

08.03.2026 21:53 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Pretty soon posting to BlueSky will be sufficient cause for deportation.

08.03.2026 21:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is like conducting a bank robbery in broad daylight after advertising it in the NYT under the assumption that since it’s not your bank being rifled, the public won’t be bothered with the details. Except, all the other banks are being systematically targeted over time.

08.03.2026 21:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Makes ethical sense for familial disease testing (and even that type of embryo selection will be banned in some Southern States). But thinking you can select only positive attributes without understanding collateral negative attributes that only identify 25 yrs later is 🦇💩 crazy arrogance.

08.03.2026 16:36 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Ditto my Auntie Bella. Taught me so much without me actually realising at the time. Dedicated my PhD thesis to her. She died just before I completed it.

08.03.2026 16:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You put your Vinay in, take your Vinay out, you put your Vinay in and you shake the FDA about.
You do the HokeyVinay and you turn around and that’s what it’s all about.

06.03.2026 22:42 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

“Let’s concentrate all of these highly explosive tankers in a straight line so we can put them into a tunnel and … hey, where did you go?”

06.03.2026 22:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Hoping as many American professors, researchers, trainees & technicians as possible attend the #StandUpForScience rallies across the US tomorrow. It’s an important message to send to Washington, but the rest of the world is also watching & supporting you in taking a stand on attacks on science. 🫡

06.03.2026 22:05 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

This is important because while the two enzymes are very similar, there are also some differences in functions as determined by genetic analysis, etc.

06.03.2026 21:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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GSK-3 alpha Antibody Polyclonal Antibody for studying GSK3-alpha. Validated for WB. Highly specific and rigorously validated in-house, GSK-3 alpha Antibody (CST #9338) is ready to ship.

In the Wnt pathway, both GSK3 isoforms are found at similar levels in the destruction complex. There are some good alpha selective antibodies (e.g. www.cellsignal.com/products/prima… ) and other reagents.

06.03.2026 21:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The only data I saw that is beta-specific is the IF data in Fig 4B. There is an unfortunate bias in the literature twowards GSK-3beta and while there are now some pretty good isoform specific inhibitors (Broad Inst) all of the commerically available ones are non-isoform selective.

06.03.2026 21:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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CHIR 99021 | Glycogen Synthase Kinase 3 | Tocris Bioscience View and buy high purity CHIR 99021 from Tocris Bioscience. Highly selective GSK-3 inhibitor; acts as Wnt activator. Cited in 412 publications.

Really interesting study! Could you take a look at your data supporting the idea that it is GSK-3beta rather than both GSK-3alpha and beta as both isoforms equally phosphorylate beta-catenin and LRP5/6 and CIHR99021 inhibits both: www.tocris.com/products/chir-….

06.03.2026 21:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

So you’ve been a walking, talking potential hazard for over 36 years!

06.03.2026 18:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Graphic featuring project details. Picture in centre is of Dr. Fradet wearing blue-rimmed glasses, a patterned button-down shirt, and a lab coat with his name and the CHU de Québec Université Laval logo embroidered.

Graphic featuring project details. Picture in centre is of Dr. Fradet wearing blue-rimmed glasses, a patterned button-down shirt, and a lab coat with his name and the CHU de Québec Université Laval logo embroidered.

Prostate cancer is the most diagnosed non-skin cancer worldwide and the third leading cause of cancer death in Canada. Yet doctors still lack reliable tools to predict who will develop the disease or identify those at risk of more aggressive forms. 

With $1 million in TFRI funding, matched by $1 million from the Canadian Cancer Society, a research team led by Dr. Vincent Fradet at the Université Laval will study the gut microbiome of 450 at-risk men to identify predictive markers and explore new, non-invasive prevention strategies.

Prostate cancer is the most diagnosed non-skin cancer worldwide and the third leading cause of cancer death in Canada. Yet doctors still lack reliable tools to predict who will develop the disease or identify those at risk of more aggressive forms. With $1 million in TFRI funding, matched by $1 million from the Canadian Cancer Society, a research team led by Dr. Vincent Fradet at the Université Laval will study the gut microbiome of 450 at-risk men to identify predictive markers and explore new, non-invasive prevention strategies.

“Preventing deadly prostate cancers through low-risk, cost-effective interventions, while sparing patients from unnecessary diagnostic procedures, overtreatment and the significant side-effects of aggressive therapies, remains a critical unmet need that we will be tackling in this project,” says Dr. Fradet.

“Preventing deadly prostate cancers through low-risk, cost-effective interventions, while sparing patients from unnecessary diagnostic procedures, overtreatment and the significant side-effects of aggressive therapies, remains a critical unmet need that we will be tackling in this project,” says Dr. Fradet.

Smarter prostate cancer prevention may begin in the gut.

With $1M in TFRI funding, matched by CCS, a research team led by Dr. Vincent Fradet will study the gut microbiome of 450 at-risk men to predict aggressive disease and reduce overdiagnosis.

Learn more: tinyurl.com/yenve9kp

06.03.2026 17:20 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Jeez… We’re competing with Ottawa for most dysfunctional light rail. The closure at Bay/College for rail repair reroutes the streetcars down McCaul. Sloooow 90 degree turns. At pedestrian crossings. By the University of Toronto. Genius.

06.03.2026 16:29 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And speed camera fines - if only.

06.03.2026 16:15 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Those don’t need controlling. The sheer volume of vehicles automatically limits everything to 10 km/hr or less.

06.03.2026 16:03 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Of course European countries have far better quality of chocolate than the adulterated stuff now being purveyed in the UK. The Cadbury name is being defiled.

06.03.2026 15:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Not so much creepy but definitely arrogant. As if most proteins are not in most of our cells.

06.03.2026 14:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ubiquitin is not your friend. Depending on how it gloms onto you, you can get whisked somewhere else, your personality changes forever or you are sent to the garbage dump. It’s the protein version of ICE.

06.03.2026 14:00 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

😥

06.03.2026 13:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Enshittification is everywhere.

06.03.2026 13:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You’d never know that half of these teams (those of Drs. Tai and Ogilvie) are actually being funded by the Terry Fox Research Institute, not CIHR. 🤔

06.03.2026 13:47 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

And hilarious that Cadbury is, of course, still required to adhere to (or fail to adhere to) EU standards.

06.03.2026 13:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Mondelēz International, Inc. Mondelēz International, Inc. (NASDAQ: MDLZ) is one of the world’s largest snacks companies, empowering people to snack right in over 150 countries.

Owned by Mondelez International, based in the US, $5 billion in revenues. What a freaking mission statement. www.mondelezinternational.com

06.03.2026 13:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0